The Advantage of Overhead Conveyor Chains in Package and Assembly Line Systems
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- Jan 10,2025
Summary
The overhead conveyor chain is an extremely flexible material handling means. This is due in part because its design is based upon a single rail from which the conveying means and the product is suspended, normally over other work areas.
The overhead conveyor chain is an extremely flexible material handling means. This is due in part because its design is based upon a single rail from which the conveying means and the product is suspended, normally over other work areas. It can be installed to follow almost any path, changing direction vertically or horizontally. Using multiple drives, a single path can be typically several 1000 ft long.
Although monorail conveyors are most commonly thought of in relation to automotive or appliance manufacturing, they are used in practically every industry worldwide. Moving product through processes, conveying finished goods to staging or shipping and returning of fixtures are normal applications.
In certain environments, humans cannot survive or human health is endangered, yet conveying means are essential. Under many conditions, other types of conveyors are not practical or would not have acceptable life expectancy. The overhead monorail conveyor combines its directional flexibility (horizontal and vertical curve movement) with its tolerance to adverse environments to broaden its applications to user requirements.
Beyond warehouse and material transportation in ambient indoor or outdoor environments, other industrial applications for product processing include:
● Washing line /cleaning line /finishing line
● Packaging conveyor line
● Baking line /drying line
● Prime and finish painting
● Automatic conveyor line
● Food and pharmaceutical handling
● Other selection tote return
● Irradiation
Product carriers are especially designed to suit secure handling while providing ease in loading and unloading, whether this is done manually, semi-automatically, or automatically. Further design considerations are required where the product is processed and not merely transported.
With adequate part (or carrier) clearance within recommended allowable loading, any type of product may be transported. Carriers may be in the form of hooks, slings, boxes, fixtures, racks, trays, baskets, or one of other numerous configurations designed to suit the application requirement.
The preferred conveyor system uses standard components wherever possible in the principal interest of economics (minimum cost). Countless specially designed components are available and are used where required.
In this event, it is recommended that the manufacturer be consulted. While this standard relates to continuous powered chain monorail conveyors, overhead monorail conveyors fall into four main classifications:
● Horizontal manual push monorail conveyor
● Continuous powered (chain/cable) monorail conveyor
● Power and free monorail conveyor
● Electrified monorail conveyor
Typically each of these classifications relies upon a track section that is either floor supported or is suspended with "hanging steel" from the building structure. Under-guarding is required in areas below the conveyor path anywhere that area is accessible to people. The under-guarding must be properly labeled cautioning against its use as service access and should not be accessible to any but maintenance personnel.
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